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You've proved them, I tell you. I've dipped you back into the past as I dip my hands into water. What you saw was what happened; it was you-you, man, a hundred years ago. Oh, why did I stop at a hundred? A thousand, a dozen thousand years would have been as easy." He came down the long room almost at a run.
This they gave to the crowd, in huge wooden bowls; and the richer people boiled coffee which they drank themselves, and offered to those sitting nearest them. When everybody had eaten, the powder play began round the fire, and at each explosion the women shrilled out their "you-you, you-you!" But this was all for the entertainment of outsiders.
But you-you don't know what life is! If people don't learn by experience, they never understand. They must be taught. My intentions are perfectly honest; on my conscience he will lose nothing, and I will pay back the money with interest. Added to which he has had the moral satisfaction of seeing me disgraced. What does he want more? and what is he good for if he never helps anyone?
"You-you make me sick!" Miss Montague cried, vibrantly. "What right have you to preach? What kind of a man are you? If he believed your lies for a minute I'd never want to see him again. He has been a true friend to me" her voice quavered, caught in her throat "the only true friend I ever had. I don't care whether he's rich or poor, but men like you are all alike.
He waited until Gabriel, with a last frightened glance at me, had passed through the gap, and then he turned upon me with an expression so murderous that I stepped back a pace or two, and tightened my grasp upon my oak stick. "You-you " he spluttered, with his hand twitching at his throat, as though his fury were choking him. "You have dared to intrude upon my privacy!
Ay, and may be we won't give big M' M'Cabe, or M'Flail, a ran that will do him good too, hip, hip so good good-night till I see you-you just as you ought to be knitting your stock-cooking like Biddy O'Doherty; hip!"
"You-you! you-you!" they cried, dark eyes gleaming, white teeth flashing. It was to be a festival for the douar, this fortunate evening of the son and heir's arrival, with a great lady of his house, and her friend, a Roumia girl. There was joy for everyone, for the Agha's relatives, and for each man, woman and child in the zmala, mighty ones, or humble members of the tribe, the Ouled-Serrin.
When they arrived, the excitement of the fantasia rose to madness. The horsemen from the south, in their splendid dresses, showed off all their skill, and whenever one of them performed any specially brilliant feat, the deafening "you-you" of the women rose from the circle of palanquins as from the benches of a circus.
"I quite insist. Make your mind easy on that score, professor. I insist." "Well, Mr. Coleman," stammered the old man. " Well, it seems a great pity to lose you-you have been such a power in our favour-" "Oh, you are now only eight hours from the rail- way. It is very easy. You would not need my as- sistance, even if it were a benefit! " But-" said the professor.
The gentleman was requested to dismount, and walk in. Mrs. Crane received him in the inn parlour, which swarmed with flies. She stood in the centre, vigilant, grim spider of the place. "I c-ca-call," said the gentleman, stammering fearfully, in con- consequence of a b-b-bill I ch-chanced to see in my ri-ri-ri-ride yesterday on a wa-wa-wall. You-you, I sup-sup " "Am X. X.," put in Mrs.
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